It is like raising children, Mr de Maizière suggests: give in to demands too early, and it will be more expensive later, "especially if giving in violates all your own principles".Yet Germany too is guilty of incoherence.
"First of all, it's never good politics to betray your principles, and all the people involved in making this policy are people who have opposed racial preferences".
The committee chairman asked Rockefeller whether he would stand by his anti-union principles even "if it costs all your property and kills all your employees".
Stick to your principles at all times and if you are faltering, read a quote or passage from a philosopher like Plato Benjamin Franklinn is another good philosopher to read.
"You have to stand by your principles, that's all".
"First of all, I believe that if you stick to your principles, you will win.
After all, party bosses of all persuasions pledge loyalties to the advancement of their own party instead of your principles.
"Stand for your principles.
Where are your principles?
Wait, you forgot your principles!
"You had to lie against your principles.
